furious - Story 53415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn it all to hell,” grumbled David. He’d stubbed his toe, the coffee had been cold, and now, this. The wallet, lying neglected near the bus bench, felt like a deliberate insult. He’d lost his job last week. The irony - a fortune, carelessly discarded, while he was drowning in debt - felt like a punch to the gut.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The urge to stuff the wallet into his pocket and vanish was a physical ache. His jaw muscles clenched, creating a visible knot in his cheek. He imagined the ease with which he could rectify his situation.

He forced himself to take a breath, the air burning his lungs. Every fiber of his being was screaming at him, a cacophony of frustrated rage. He knew the right thing to do, but the choice felt like a victory for the universe, and a personal defeat.

Emotion: furious

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.01 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion furious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 furious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the furious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the furious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.461
`骂`	0.376
`🤬`	0.338
`aggravated`	0.313
`est`	0.304

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.356
`de`	-0.334
`L`	-0.308
`H`	-0.301
`adventurous`	-0.256